…Our Solar System 
” Why do you love space so much? “
Beautiful and Mystifying?
Written by American astronomer and planetary scientist, Carl Sagan.
The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding.
Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home.
And yet our species, is young and curious and brave and shows much promise.
In the last few millennia, we have made the most astonishing and unexpected discoveries.
They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prerequisite to survival.
Our little planet floats like a mote of dust in the morning sky. All that you see, all that we can see,
exploded out of a star billions of years ago, and the particles slowly arranged themselves into living things, including all of us.
We are made of star stuff. We are the mechanism by which the universe can comprehend itself.
The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth.
We should remain grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides…
